Remembering Ken Mattingly, forever an Apollo hero

Last week’s passing of Ken Mattingly, aged 87, reduces the number of men still alive to tell tales of orbiting the Moon to eight. An intrepid lunar voyager and space shuttle commander, Mattingly was an obsessive workaholic whose colorful eccentricity belied a keen wit and razor-sharp mind. In the movie Apollo 13, his career tookContinue reading “Remembering Ken Mattingly, forever an Apollo hero”
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